RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4263 locations in the last 30 days (4453 reports) · Last sighting yesterday

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Each circle is a Chicago neighborhood. The number is its report count — click one to zoom in and see individual sightings there.

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Colors are relative to what’s currently on screen, so they adjust as you switch time ranges.

Zoomed into a neighborhood or zip? Same colors group nearby reports, and a bright dot means that exact spot’s been reported more than once.

📰 This week’s rat recap

Weekly Rat Trends — Oct 26–Nov 1, 2026

  • 🐀 1,021 new reports — down 9% from the week before
  • 👑 Lake View is Rat King with 70 reports
  • 📈 Biggest jump: Lincoln Park, up 15 from last week
  • 🏙️ The city took 11.2 days on average to resolve a complaint
Read the full recap →

Why Chicago keeps score on its rats

Chicago has topped national rankings of the rattiest U.S. cities for over a decade running — a reputation the city itself takes seriously enough to run one of the country’s most active 311 rodent-complaint programs. Every baiting request, burrow report, and complaint filed with the city becomes a public record. RatCity turns that record, plus reports from people who live here, into a map you can actually use: is this block bad? Is it getting worse? Which neighborhood is winning (or losing) the fight this month?

What’s actually on the map

Most of the data is Chicago’s own — every “Rodent Baiting/Rat Complaint” filed through 311, pulled in automatically once a day so the map never goes stale. Layered on top are sightings reported directly by visitors, matched to the same neighborhood and zip-code boundaries the city uses, so a resident’s report and an official 311 complaint carry equal weight on the map.

Reading the map

Circles are sized and colored by how many reports a neighborhood has racked up — blue is quiet, red means trouble. The Day / Week / 30 Days / Year toggle up top changes the window, so you can see whether a neighborhood’s rat problem is a one-week blip or a year-long trend. Whoever’s in the lead gets crowned the neighborhood Rat King in the sidebar, a title that changes hands as new reports come in.

Noticed a rat that isn’t on the map yet? Use “Report a sighting” above — it takes under a minute and goes live as soon as it’s reviewed. Curious about where the data actually comes from or how reports are moderated? See the About page for the full breakdown.

Want more? The blog has weekly trend recaps and guides on Chicago’s rat problem and how to keep it out of your home.

Browse every sighting

58,858 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/25/20251534 W FARWELL AVERogers Park49Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
8/10/20264354 W MARQUETTE RDWest Lawn13Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/202510921 S VINCENNES AVEMorgan Park21Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
7/24/20255391 N NORTHWEST HWYJefferson Park45Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/27/20253056 N RACINE AVELake View32Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/6/20263019 N LINCOLN AVELake View32Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
7/15/20261455 S WABASH AVENear South Side3Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/17/20266527 N TROY STWest Ridge50Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/18/20251426 W RASCHER AVEEdgewater48Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/12/20261932 N KEDVALE AVEHermosa26Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/6/20253669 N ELSTON AVEIrving Park33Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/23/20258727 S MUSKEGON AVESouth Chicago10Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/13/202611350 S LANGLEY AVEPullman9Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
10/5/20267456 N GREENVIEW AVERogers Park49Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/30/202613509 S BRANDON AVEHegewisch10Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/28/20253906 N SAWYER AVEIrving Park33Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/6/20265148 W ST PAUL AVEAustin37Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
6/29/20262322 S LEAVITT STLower West Side25Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
8/26/20262021 N SEMINARY AVELincoln Park43Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/3/20258127 S KINGSTON AVESouth Chicago7Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/1/20262830 N LAWNDALE AVEAvondale35Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/6/2026722 N CICERO AVEAustin37Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/18/20263641 S PRAIRIE AVEDouglas3Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20252460 W HUTCHINSON STNorth Center47Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/13/202610531 S ALBANY AVEMount Greenwood19Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
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